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EASTERN CONFERENCE Semifinals No. 1M N.Y. Rangers vs. No. 2M Washington Season records: New York 53-22-7, Washington 45-26-11 Season series: N.Y. Rangers won 3-1 What to watch: A much-anticipated Rangers-Islanders playoff series won’t happen, as the Capitals eliminated the Isles with a Game 7 win Monday. But a series that features the Rangers’ speed and…

EASTERN CONFERENCE Quarterfinals No. 1M N.Y. Rangers vs. WC No. 2 Pittsburgh Season records: New York 53-22-7, Pittsburgh 43-27-12 Season series: N.Y. Rangers won 3-1 What to watch: The Penguins have top-end talent, starting with Cs Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin and G Marc-Andre Fleury. But the Rangers are playing like the most league’s most…

The Erie Otters picked two players in the 2014 CHL Import Draft last month. None are on the roster. Second-round pick Igor Vladykovski headlined a group of 10 prospects cut Friday night, which left the club with 32 players heading into Saturday’s 5 p.m. preseason opener against Mississauga at Erie Insurance Arena. The Otters already…

Andre Burakovsky will participate in Erie Otters camp this week. But don’t read too much into that. He isn’t staying long, since he heads to Washington Capitals camp early next month. And like his agent, Kevin Epp of Titan Sports Management in Vancouver, British Columbia, said recently, he likely won’t return. “The chances of him…

Erie Otters GM Sherry Bassin did a masterful job of keeping prospect Alex DeBrincat well hidden from 19 other GMs for a few months before signing the diminutive yet high-scoring forward (54 goals, 111 points in 50 games with Lake Forest Academy out of Illinois a season) after the OHL draft in April. Bassin’s work…

Mercyhurst’s Daniel O’Donoghue turned the best season of his college hockey career into a NHL contract Friday. The senior forward signed a two-year, entry-level contract with the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes, and will join the club’s AHL affiliate, the Portland Pirates in Portland, Maine, as early as this weekend. The Pirates play in Manchester, N.H., against…

In other trade news, the Phoenix Coyotes announced they traded forward prospect Chris Brown, 23, whose family has ties to Millcreek Township, to Washington on Tuesday in a deal that also sent defenseman Rostislav Klesla and a fourth-round pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft to the Capitals for forwards Martin Erat and John Mitchell….

PLYMOUTH, Mich. – The Erie Otters gained a key piece of their offense in time for Saturday night’s game at Plymouth. Rookie winger Andre Burakovsky, who was reassigned to the Otters by the NHL’s Washington Capitals earlier in the day, made his much-anticipated OHL debut in a 2-1 win against the Whalers in front of…